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You can write all your HTML/CSS/JavaScript by hand and have no weird integration issues.

WASM is designed not to be written by hand. It is the only component that forces you to use a compiler chain.

I said along the lines of, paraphrasing myself, in my beginner talk about Wasm + Ruby at OSS Summit, "I distinctly began to get the impression that Wasm was trying to sell me a compiler, so I decided that I should probably go ahead and let it..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsAuJmHYWgI&list=PLbzoR-pLrL...

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